Ionic ruthenium

Although the ruthenium species observed during CO reduction in the absence of promoters is Ru(CO)s, its concentration can be reduced to unobservable levels by promoters which cause the formation of ionic ruthenium complexes. Because this system differs from unpromoted ruthenium catalysts in as many respects—rates, selectivities, catalytic species observed, and mechanism—it is addressed separately in this section. 

Such design concepts were first reported utilizing 2,2 -bithiazole and 2,2 -bi-pyridine units, respectively, as postpolymerization metal coordination sites [349, 350]. Subsequently, a poly(p-phenylenevinylene)-based polymer 69 containing ionic ruthenium centers bound to bipyridyl (BPY) units incorporated into the polymer backbone was reported. This system, depicted in Scheme 68, exhibits enhanced photoconductivity relative to the parent organic polymer [351] (Yu). 

All these polymers with ruthenium terpyridine/bipyridine complexes contain ionic ruthenium complex on the polymer main chain. Other than the... 

The hydrogenation of sorbic acid to cis- and trans-3-hexenoic acid using the ionic ruthenium complex [Ru(C5Me5)(MeCH=CH-CH=CHC02H)][CF3S03] as the catalyst has been conducted in [BMIM][PFg]-methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) [40]. The formation of ds-3-hexenoic acid can be achieved with selectivity up to 93% [Eq. (4)]. 

The RCM of <7,a)-dienes was successfully catalyzed with a new-generation ionic ruthenium-alkylidene complex in water (Figure Z9i)P... 

The multiple desilyation of silyated cydopentadienes is promoted by ionic ruthenium and rhodium halides. For example the reaction of ruthenium trichloride with... 

The first example of homogeneous transition metal catalysis in an ionic liquid was the platinum-catalyzed hydroformylation of ethene in tetraethylammonium trichlorostannate (mp. 78 °C), described by Parshall in 1972 (Scheme 5.2-1, a)) [1]. In 1987, Knifton reported the ruthenium- and cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation of internal and terminal alkenes in molten [Bu4P]Br, a salt that falls under the now accepted definition for an ionic liquid (see Scheme 5.2-1, b)) [2]. The first applications of room-temperature ionic liquids in homogeneous transition metal catalysis were described in 1990 by Chauvin et al. and by Wilkes et ak. Wilkes et al. used weekly acidic chloroaluminate melts and studied ethylene polymerization in them with Ziegler-Natta catalysts (Scheme 5.2-1, c)) [3]. Chauvin s group dissolved nickel catalysts in weakly acidic chloroaluminate melts and investigated the resulting ionic catalyst solutions for the dimerization of propene (Scheme 5.2-1, d)) [4]. 

An example of a stereoselective hydrogenation in ionic liquids was recently successfully demonstrated by Drie en-H6lscher et al. On the basis of investigations into the biphasic water/n-heptane system [51], the ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogenation of sorbic acid to cis-3-hexenoic acid in the [BMIM][PFg]/MTBE system was studied [52], as shown in Scheme 5.2-8. 

Ruthenium- and cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation of internal and terminal alkenes in molten [PBuJBr was reported by Knifton as early as in 1987 [2]. The author described a stabilization of the active ruthenium-carbonyl complex by the ionic medium. An increased catalyst lifetime at low synthesis gas pressures and higher temperatures was observed. 

Polynuclear transition metal cyanides such as the well-known Prussian blue and its analogues with osmium and ruthenium have been intensely studied Prussian blue films on electrodes are formed as microcrystalline materials by the electrochemical reduction of FeFe(CN)g in aqueous solutionThey show two reversible redox reactions, and due to the intense color of the single oxidation states, they appear to be candidates for electrochromic displays Ion exchange properties in the reduced state are limited to certain ions having similar ionic radii. Thus, the reversible... 

Dendrimers can be constructed from chemical species other than purely organic monomers. For example, they can be built up from metal branching centres such as ruthenium or osmium with multidentate ligands. The resulting molecules are known as metallodendrimers. Such molecules can retain their structure by a variety of mechanisms, including complexation, hydrogen bonding and ionic interactions. 

Non-ionic thiourea derivatives have been used as ligands for metal complexes [63,64] as well as anionic thioureas and, in both cases, coordination in metal clusters has also been described [65,66]. Examples of mononuclear complexes of simple alkyl- or aryl-substituted thiourea monoanions, containing N,S-chelating ligands (Scheme 11), have been reported for rhodium(III) [67,68], iridium and many other transition metals, such as chromium(III), technetium(III), rhenium(V), aluminium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum [69] and palladium [70]. Many complexes with N,S-chelating monothioureas were prepared with two triphenylphosphines as substituents. 

The (5 )-selective DKR of alcohols with subtilisin was also possible in ionic liquid at room temperature (Table 14). " In this case, the cymene-ruthenium complex 3 was used as the racemization catalyst. In general, the optical purities of (5 )-esters were lower than those of (R)-esters described in Table 5. 

In fact, partial hydrogenations are rarely described with soluble nanoparticle catalysts. Two examples are explained in the Uterature, one reported by Finke and coworkers in the hydrogenation of anisole with polyoxoanion-stabihzed Rh(0) nanoclusters [26] and one reported by Dupont and coworkers in the hydrogenation of benzene with nanoscale ruthenium catalysts in room temperature imidazoUiun ionic Uquids [69]. hi these two cases, the yields are very modest. 

Kramer, J., Redel, E., Thomann, R. and Janiak, C. (2008) Use of ionic liquids for the synthesis of iron, ruthenium, and osmium nanopartides from their metal carbonyl precursors. Organometallics,... 

The hydrogenation of C02 in the presence of amines to give dialkylformamides has been carried out directly in an IL/scC02 system. In this case, the ionic liquid was shown to play a dual role [74]. It is an effective solvent for the ruthenium phosphine catalyst and at the same time allows a distinct phase distribution of the polar carbamate intermediates and the less polar products formed during the conversion of C02. As a result, the selectivity of the reaction can be increased over conditions where scC02 is used as the sole reaction medium. 

Casey has suggested that the hydrogenation of alkenes by Shvo s catalyst may proceed by a mechanism involving loss of CO from the Ru-hydride complex, and coordination of the alkene. Insertion of the alkene into the Ru-H bond would give a ruthenium alkyl complex that can be cleaved by H2 to produce the alkane [75], If this is correct, it adds further to the remarkable chemistry of this series of Shvo complexes, if the same complex hydrogenates ketones by an ionic mechanism but hydrogenates alkenes by a conventional insertion pathway. 

Recently, Dupont and coworkers described the use of room-temperature imi-dazolium ionic liquids for the formation and stabilization of transition-metal nanoparticles. The potential interest in the use of ionic liquids is to promote a bi-phasic organic-organic catalytic system for a recycling process. The mixture forms a two-phase system consisting of a lower phase which contains the nanocatalyst in the ionic liquid, and an upper phase which contains the organic products. Rhodium and iridium [105], platinum [73] or ruthenium [74] nanoparticles were prepared from various salts or organometallic precursors in dry 1-bu-tyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMI PF6) ionic liquid under hydrogen pressure (4 bar) at 75 °C. Nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 2-3 nm... 

A special example for a regioselective hydrogenation in ionic liquids was reported by our group and by DrieRen-Holscher [96, 97]. Based on investigations in the biphasic system water/n-heptane, the ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogenation of sorbic acid to ds-3-hexenoic acid according to Scheme 41.3 in the system [BMIM][PF6]/MTBE was studied [98],... 

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